Four months before he killed himself in a hotel room in France, Anthony Bourdain eerily spoke about death — but also said he was “happy in ways I didn’t think I ever would be.”

“I’m going to pretty much die in the saddle,” he told People magazine in February while filming his show “Parts Unknown.”

The 61-year-old chef and TV show host said he spends about 250 days a year on the road — but wasn’t planning on retiring from his globe-trotting life any time soon.

“I gave up on that. I’ve tried. I just think I’m just too nervous, neurotic, driven,” he said. “I would have had a different answer a few years ago. I might have deluded myself into thinking that I’d be happy in a hammock or gardening. But no, I’m quite sure I can’t.”

Despite his busy schedule, Bourdain made sure to carve out five days a month to spend time with his 11-year-old daughter, Ariane, who lives with his ex-wife, Ottavia Busia, in Manhattan.

“I’ll go back, see my daughter, unpack, repack, mimic a normal life, which is extraordinarily pleasurable to me,” he said.

Bourdain said the birth of his only child made him feel like he had “some responsibility” to “at least try to live.”

“I also do feel I have things to live for,” he said. “There have been times, honestly, in my life that I figured, ‘I’ve had a good run — why not just do this stupid thing, this selfish thing … jump off a cliff into water of indeterminate depth,'” he said, recalling something he’d once done for his show “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.”

Before his daughter was born, Bourdain said he’d often push his boundaries.

“I was, frankly, asking for trouble. It was a daredevil move,” he said. “In retrospect, I don’t know that I would do that today, now that I’m a dad or reasonably happy.”

He described himself to People as being “happy in ways that I have not been in memory” and “happy in ways I didn’t think I ever would be, for sure.”

He credited girlfriend, Asia Argento, with his contentment.

The pair met in 2016, when the Italian actress appeared on season eight of “Parts Unknown.”

Bourdain also admitted he was once addicted to heroin and cocaine and was drinking too much in his final years working in the restaurant industry, but he said he wasn’t a daily drinker.

“It’s never been an addiction for me,” he said about alcohol. “I’ve abused alcohol, for sure, but I’ve never felt a compulsion to … cigarettes, obviously, that’s an addiction.”

Anthony Bourdain remembered in pictures:

Anthony Bourdain at Cafe D'Alsace

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Bourdain in 2000 in front of his restaurant Les Halles

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David Rentas

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Bourdain was a judge in Bravo's cooking competition show, "Top Chef," in 2006.

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Bourdain attends The Food Bank For New York City Lights The Empire State Building Orange For Hunger Awareness at The Empire State Building in 2011.

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Bourdain with chef and restaurateur Eddie Huang at BaoHaus in New York in 2011